I select some of these lines as examples.
Of Care, who only “seals her eyes in cloisters,” he says,
| “She visits cities, but she dwells in thrones.” |
Of learned Curiosity, eager, but not to be hurried—the student is
| “Hasty to know, though not by haste beguiled.” |
He calls a library, with sublime energy,
| “The monument of vanish’d minds.” |
Never has a politician conveyed with such force a most important precept:
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——————“The laws, Men from themselves, but not from power, secure.” |